HONG
JAPANESE OFFENSIVE AGAINST
INSURGENTS
RIVER BOATS CONVERTED INTO
IRONCLADS
LARGEST OPERATIONS SINCE
CHINCHOW DRIVE
TryRough neurer's AGENCY:]
TOKYO, Apr 27. With Eastern and Northern Manchuria aflume with insurgency against the Manchukuo Government, the Japansso army in the Harbin aroa bag: begun the largest military operation since the drive against Chlachow in Decain ber last,
Three brigades are now on the move under the command of Lieut. General Hirose, travelling by rail and by river, aiming to crush the rebel troops on the eastern section of the Chinese Eastern Railway and the Lower Sungari regions by a huge, pinser", movement..
Lient.-General Hirose's Command is composed of Major........... General Mural's Mixed Brigade, working to the north from Imlenpo in the direction of Fangchen, lan; Major General Yoda's Brigade, moving eastward along the Chinese Eastern Railway to Join the Mural Brigado; and the Nakamura Brigade which left. Harbin this morning, sailing down the Sungari with a unique Armada.
The Nakamura troops were loaded into twenty-two river boats converted into ironclads, each mounting two field gens and escorted by four Menchukuo gunboats.
The armads "ls steaming cautiously through the floating ico owing to reports that the insurgents have laid mines in the river. Minor operations to 'crush the guerillas in other districts are also making progress,
REBEL STRONGHOLD CAPTURED
HARBIN, April 26.
Minister in China, and the chief The Japanese forces to-day co- delegate to the Shanghai armistice cupied Fengtaphotze, which had conference, this morning retsived been held by insurgent troops, instructions to accept Bir Miles Hengtaolotge is on the enstern seo- 'Eaimpson's compromise formula. tion of the Chinese Eastern Rail- way, along which the Japancas troops are continuing to advpnee.
GENEVA SECRECY SHANGHAI SETTLEMENT
DISCUSSION
NO AGREEMENT AT GENEVA
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GENEVA, April 27
The Committee of Ninteen dis persed after an hour's deliberation yesterday
ANTI RED
CAMPAIGN."
CANTON PLANES LEAVE
FOR SWATOW
{From Our Own Correspondent.)
HID PPING OUTRAGE
MISCREANTS SHOOT THEIR WAY TO FREEDOM
FRUITLESS ATTEMPT TO RESCUE BABY
(From Our Own Correspondant).
SHANGHAI, April 97. Snatching the four-year-old son of a wealthy Chinese contractor. from its bedroom in the early hours of the morning, two armed kidnap pera shot their way to freedom from an upstairsą room. sdter the father and a small event girl had unsuccessfully attempted to save the baby: NG
ARTMOOR REVOLT
SEQUEL
TRIAL OF 31 CONVICTS OPENS AT PRINCETOWN
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY. FOUR WITNESSES TO BE
CALLED
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Devonshire, the trial began at a In the Town Hall at Princetown,
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armed guards around his hotel ali night. 2)
CANTON, April 7. Six bombing 'planes, part of the The outrage was perpetrated in with the sensational revolt as Dart. 5th Aerial Squadron of the Canton the Simmdistrict, which was of moor in January last, Mr. Justice Air Force, left here for Swatowe the scene of several succesul Finlay being closely guarded by
police raids on criminal gange this moming at 8 o'clock to take. part in the anti-Communist cum peign in Fuction. The a
squadron: was led by Captain Lan Tsio Ini Each machine is equipped with one or more machine guns, Bombs and other heavy war material for use by the 5th Air @quadron were sent to Swadow by gunboat severna days ago.
From the Swatow air base the planes will fly to souther Fulien to reconnoitre the positions of the Communists Special attempts will be made to photograph the defence positions of the Communists in occupation of Changobow, and Lungyenfu. General La Yang King Field Commander of the campaign, in cooperation with the Fukiences forces under General! Chang Ching, expects to dislodge the Communists at an early date
HU-CHEN CONFERENCE
The affair was executed with consummate daring and considers able brutality. Cautiously creep: ing upstairs while the household slept the miscreants, who were ap parently familiar with the interior of the house, grabbed the child; tho inther awoke, raised an alarm and attempted to follow the as duster, who opened fire and wound ed his victim in the groin. The maidservant plicily rushed into the passage on the ground floor and tried to rescue the child, but was, wounded in her nam. The kid nappers fred several more shots in order to intimidate the other re Curs and then jumped into a waiting automobile and escape.
The police quickly arrived on the scene but found no trace of the kidnappers
UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION
NO DIVIDEND FOR ORDINARIES
{THROUGH REUTER3⁄41⁄2" AGENCY. };
teemed with armed police and plain- Ther presinats of the Court to-day
clothes: detectives.
True Bills were returned against all the accused on three of five indictments, one of which contains the names of all the thirty-one ac used; while some individuais are charged with attempted murder and aight are charged with arson.
The defence will call twenty-four accused and sixty other convicts, while the prosecution 48 calling: seventy witnesses.
WARDERS"
DENIALS
BATON CHARGE ADMISSION
Dastur Hesperus
"FIRST: "SPRING HANDICAP FOR TWO-YEAR-OLDS
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3.
LONDON, April 27 two-year-olds resulted as follows:- The First Spring Handicap for
Sunny Ann Lady Hurry Filly...
Turtad Won by half a length three. lengths between second and third Twelve ran.
Betting. Sunny Anna Lady. Hurry Hilly Tartan
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You mean that any man who was standing within your reach you clubbed No. men who wore throw Fing stones or had adopted a threa
tening attitude to me. I clubbra the men, across the body.
"Heads" or "* Skulls?" Can you account for so many of the men having their skulle split
Landon, March 30-Were two open 7:
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For the first time since 1915, the with their heads bleeding?" asked Tucker) Their skulls split open
Naw Yoak, April 28.
men dragged down to the cells The Chairman (Col Marwood United States Steel Corporation bas Mr. James, one of the defending What do you mean 1 passed the quarterly dividend on the counsel, during the resumed hear-
1.
12"
Mr. James: I mean skulls, heads. The Chairman I think it would be much better to say heads" is stead of "skulla."
TOKYO AGANST
SION TO 1942
THROUGH REUTHE AGENCY,
Torvo, April $70 The Japazes voracular papers report that the Navy Of de oppor the proposal to extend be termed the London Nava Treaty after the present termination in 1988;
M. Stimson has suggested to Pre Beports from Geneva aste th
gate an extension of tire. Trust mier Tardieu and the Italian dde
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SITUATION AT AMOX
ABSENCE OF RELIABLE NEWS
The following message was recal ed from H. M. St Devon hire, is stationed at: Amoy, yesterday:
There is a maikod absence reliable news. The local sit is, however, quiet.
named Beadle was split open.
Mr. James suggested that this co ourred on February 25, a mont after the mutiny.'
Stacey Well, I didn't do it, Mr. James: You were there when io was done Yes, outside the val
Stacey added that he did n know why it was done.
Mr. James That is the ERO of all you warders
Hear, Rear-from the Dock
The man mashed his cell upo Asked again, Stacey replied He added that the officers CONUSTE ad eame from other prisons
When the chairman intervened Mr. James declared It is a part of that consistent treatment. Is is part of the whole story D
tinuing, I say emphatically, to alleged rioting and which
system which started before
Very day."
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Hear, hear," said the princ in the dock, and Mr. James pealed for quiet
Officer H. St. Clair Kib Officer Alfred Hicks said that revealed that only 13 out This suggestion of further trouble at the prison follows reports of convict with him in the boiler 400 max in the prison were allo distérbances on Sunday. It is un-house was shot in the arm. He was to smoke. derstood that 40 convicts have been when the boiler house was filled with Stevens said that he saw the
& "trasty" who stuck to his jobb Prison Officer punished by the Governor for resteam owing to the breaking of two soner, Saxton, lying the ar fusing to obey orders on that day.
not unconscious, after the baton charge,
A military communiqué from Swałow states that the Com- munista in Chanzchow appear to have changed their plane ostend of advancing towards "Amay, as now heading for Tungon with Foo- they had first decided, they are chow as their objective. Thin sud den change was due, it is said, to the heavy concentrations of Govern: ment troops at Amay since the fall common stock. of Changchow.
The Directors have decided, howg at Princetown of the charges. ever, to authorise the payment o
arising out of the Dartmoor the regular dividend of $1.75 on
mutiny. the Preferred Shares..
RESULT OF BRITAIN'S TARIFF POLICY FIFTY NEW FOREIGN UNDERTAKINGS
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE}
RUGBY, April 26. Questioned fires who are opening factories in regarding foreign Britain as a result of the new tarif policy, Mr. Runciman said fifty new undertakings had been set up during the last few months, London and were for the most part The majority were in or near new business, in a few instances they represented definite additions
RED" SUPPRESSION
DISCUSSED.
(Wah Tez Tai Pao)"
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
GENEVA, April 28: It is understood that M. Hymans The Assembly Committee of Nine-
gave exhaustive details of the in- teen mes to-day but very atriet.
formal conversations and the efforts silence was imposed upon
the t delegates with the result that the to secure a settlement agreeable to nature of the promedings have not both sides, which, however, has notdence at Stanley, in which it in been divulged."
yet been achievo
After a secret meeting with Mr. Hu Has Min at the latter's resi believed that the problems of Japan refuses to accept Bir Miles
**Red" suppression and national The Committee is hopeful of a defence in South China were thor Lampson's compromise formule if successful outcome of the Shanghai Tsai Tong left Hong Kong yester. oughly discussed General Chen it has official connection with the parleys as a result of the attempts day afternoon for Canton by a proceedings at Geneva, while Tokyo to reach a compromise there, so as special train. He was accompanied in also demanding a variation of. the terms of the resolution recently to enable an early re-meeting of the by a small entourage, pad,
TOKYO ACCEPTS
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· SHANGHAI, April 27. Mr. Shigemitsu, the Japanese
"HONOUR SLAYING"
TRIAL
FINAL STAGES REACHED
[TUROUGE REUTER'S: „AGENCY.]
Committee to consider the next step,
In the event of a failure of agree- ment between the parties, the Com- mittee is expected to call a public meeting to report progress and then to summon the full Assembly
CHAS. LINDBERGH,
JUNR.
FATHER NOW IN TOUCH WITH KIDNAPPERS
VICE-ADMIRAL DREYER
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APPOINTED TO CHINA STATION
(Reuter's Special Service.)
to existing business.
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SERVICE
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RUGBY, April 20.
A dozen convicts are leating Dart moor this morning for other pri
gauges...
The officer could not say who shot him.
Officer Gerald Dennis Stacey
Mr. James Did you hit him
Yes, I hit him on the arm.
Steven's Henied that he struck
A heavy fog hung over Dartmoor questioned by Mr. James, denied yesterday morning.
The armed that he was armed at any time dur-Saxton again when he was on the guard for the 32 accused men was ing the mutiny; that a policeman ground or that his baton was cover doubled for the journey to the court.said to him, Don't shoot him, youed with blood. officer, was giving evidence reguru had been knocked to the ground he covered with blood --Not at that William John Wilson, a prison cowardly dog or than when a man Mr. James Were your hands ing the start of the mutiny when deliberately held a gun to his time. Mr. James was handed a number
head."
Officer Stevens explained the bi in the dock when Stacey denied when he helped to take the wound
There was a protest from the men handa became covered with blood knowing that the heat of a convicted men to hospital
(Continued on next column) The court adjourned..
of notes written by accused convict le naked Wilson whether he saw After reading one of the notes, any trouble in B" Hall on Mon day morning, Wilson replied that he did not.
Mr. James Did you see a man named Stewart T
Mr. Paling I do not see quite what this has got to do with it.
Mr. James Stewart is a witness who will be called. According to my instructions this witne WAS interfered with.
Offer Wilson said that be did bot know Stawart
Mr. James Do you know 360 Masog No.
paméa
When the weekly African air mail leaves Croydon to-morrow, the en- tire 8,000 miles route to the Cape whether either of those was dragged You cannot enlightenmo as to will open for passengers as well as down to the cells yesterday with mails and parcele. Hitherto, pawtheir heady bleeding -No. sengers have been carried only to LONDON, April 26.
Nairobi.
Mr. James: Then I must find one) The Admiralty announces the up- 'The
whỏ chini. pointment of Vice-Admiral Fre carrying service, also leaves Capo
first through passenger Replying to other questions, Wil derie Charles Dreyer, CB, C.B. town to-morrow. The fare of £1200 said he knew a man HOPEWELL, New Jersey,
a Lord Commissioner of the Ad includes meals, hotel accommoda. Beams, but could not say whether miralty and Deputy Chief of the tion and tips and the journey he was injured on Monday. April 27.
Naval Staff, Commander-in-takes. 11 days as compared with 17 Chief, China Station, in succession by surface transport. Colonet Charles Lindbergh estab-to Admiral Bir Howard Kolly. The
* Hiding
**In the Dock? the accused in the honour slay lished personal contact with the ing" trial, on the charge of second kidnappers last week, according to degree murder, carrying a sentence a high New Jersey State official, of from ter years imprisonment to who states be conferred with the imprisonment for life, was made by group that received the $60,000 "the prosecution counsel in his final ransom,
address to the jury.
HONOLULU, April 26.
A demand for the conviction of
Officer Leouard James Halls, des
appointment is to its from Febru. NEW YORK, SHARE GRAFT ribing the muting, said some of ary, 1933.
STARTLING ENQUIRY
had a most distinguished career, The new Commander-in-Chief has
the convicts were armed with pick shafts, sledge hammers, bars of tron and is, incidentally, Admiralty ru
ALLEGATIONS
and stones. He saw Colonel Turn. presentative to the League of Na
er and Chief Officer Smale 'jump- tions Advisory Commission..
(THROUGE HEUTER'S AGENCY.]
Fing from a window while convicts He entered the Navy in 1801, and Colonel Lindbergh new plans to saw much service in
were throwing stones at them.. WASHINGTON, April 28.
When Halls failed to pick out The Court was crowded to-day meet Mr Curtis, the ship-builder, Flag Captain to Admiral Jellicoe to-day before the Senate Commit. Paling remarked: "I think there War. In October 1915 he became: Sensational evidence, was given convict Cosgrove in the dock, MT. white women being sprinkled on a host of the Virginia Coast, in the Iron Duke, and at the Battletes appointed to investigate condi- seems to be a certain amount of among the natives. Many sat all to complete the negotiations for of Jutland, in the words of histions on the New York Stock Ex After a muttered protest from the
"night outside the Court in order
to secure front seats.
The outstanding figures in what
On
14
the Great
the retard of the baby. Mr. Curtis chief, Admiral Jellicoe, "Command change, who, with two other is acting ased and handled the Flest flagship Mr. Fiorello La Guardia, who dock at this remark the prisoners intermediary with the kidnappers, most shly."
sits in the House of Representatives stood a row at a time, and Mr. disappeared this morning
He is the well-known gunnery ex- for New York City, alleged that James remarked that it was absurd mysterious journey aboard a yacht.pert, and want to the Admiralty in over G250,000 has been paid into suggest that they were hiding.“ 1917 as Director of Naval Ordnance, recent years to financial writers to Cosgrove was in the second row where his knowledge of gunnery boost stocks in which brokers ware and when he was picked out said, TEA DUTY PASSED was a valuable asset to the Depart rigging the market.
is now known as the." Honour slaying trial" are Licut Massie, Mrs, Fortescie and two other asa men: These four people are cused of having been concerned in the killing of a native of Hono lulu, as a result of an assault on y Mrs: Massie wife of the first naimed and daughter of Mrs.. Fortescue.]
Government spokesman" "asid "4 tea stocks in the country were suf- ficiariz of sixs montat and with the Atouk were not taxed revenue would
·Jose £1,700,000.
WITH LITTLE OPPOSITION"
THROUGH BIOTER'S AGENCY 1
LONDON, April 26. The House of Commons. to-day carried the Budget tea-duty reso lution by 258 votes to:43:
(Reuters. Special Servico;)"
1
mént. He afterwards served a Director of the Gunnery Division, and from 1027 Ed 1929 he-command-" ad the Battle Cruiser Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet.
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NAVAL SUMMER CRUISE
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Ruany, April 5'-
I have not been hiding. I have been sitting here the whole timo
Officer Frederick James Hutt raid that the mob seemed to fight among themselves over food they obtained from the kitchenal Hutt said that when the Ply mouth police arrived he took part in the baton-charge
Born in 1878, he is a son of the late J., L. E. Dreyer, former Pre-
"Mr. James: Did you club any of the menfes, as many as 1 could sident of the Royal Astronomical Portsmouth-manned ships of the uggest that you clubbed mon
lay hand on. Society. In 1901, he married Home Fest, including the flagannathom you had a private daughter of the Rev. J. T. Hallett, HMS. Nelson, left port to-day for LONDON, April 2 and there are three sons and two their hummer grise in Bcottish grievance -No. I clubbed any man During the debate on the Ten daughters by the marriage. He is waters. The cruise will be follow whom I saw throwing stones or in Duty in the House of Commons, the the holder of numerous foreign deed by visits to coastal holiday (Oontinued on Previous Volumn) corations.
a threatening attitude, resorts,
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